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MORE POLITICIZED NEWS FROM THE WASHINGTON POST

In a disgusting display of partisan politics, the Washington Post deliberately politicized a tragedy totally caused by the victim’s own actions and tried to suggest that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s policies should be inspected. As if that were an adequate answer to the preventable death of a child by a parent who knowingly endangered his own daughter. If indeed it is his own daughter?

A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday.

The child’s death is likely to intensify scrutiny of detention conditions at Border Patrol stations and CBP facilities that are increasingly overwhelmed by large numbers of families seeking asylum in the United States.

[OCS: Instead of lauding the Border Patrol and pointing out the heroic and expensive efforts to save this child’s life, the miscreant reporters and their equally culpable editors and publisher seek to politicize the tragedy and seemingly question the actions of the BCP.]

According to CBP records, the girl and her father were taken into custody about 10 p.m. Dec. 6 south of Lordsburg, N.M., as part of a group of 163 people who approached U.S. agents to turn themselves in.

More than eight hours later, the child began having seizures at 6:25 a.m., CBP records show. Emergency responders, who arrived soon after, measured her body temperature at 105.7 degrees, and according to a statement from CBP, she “reportedly had not eaten or consumed water for several days.”

After a helicopter flight to Providence Children’s Hospital in El Paso, the child went into cardiac arrest and “was revived,” according to the agency. “However, the child did not recover and died at the hospital less than 24 hours after being transported,” CBP said.

The agency did not release the name of the girl or her father, but the father remains in El Paso awaiting a meeting with Guatemalan consular officials, according to CBP. The agency is investigating the incident to ensure appropriate policies were followed, it said.

[OCS: The father should be criminally charged and prosecuted for premeditated child endangerment. He should be imprisoned and then deported. He is not worthy of sympathy for the loss of a child whose death could have been prevented had he not used his child as a key to pick the lock of American sovereignty.]

Food and water are typically provided to migrants in Border Patrol custody, and it wasn’t immediately clear Thursday if the girl received provisions and a medical exam before the onset of seizures.

“Our sincerest condolences go out to the family of the child,” CBP spokesman Andrew Meehan said in a statement to The Washington Post.

“Border Patrol agents took every possible step to save the child’s life under the most trying of circumstances,” Meehan said. “As fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, we empathize with the loss of any child.”

The ACLU blamed “lack of accountability, and a culture of cruelty within CBP” for the girl’s death. “The fact that it took a week for this to come to light shows the need for transparency for CBP. We call for a rigorous investigation into how this tragedy happened and serious reforms to prevent future deaths,” Cynthia Pompa, advocacy manager for the ACLU Border Rights Center, said in a statement.

[OCS: Is anyone surprised that the ACLU (American Communist Lawyers Union) was quick to politicize this tragedy which is clearly the fault of the father who endangered his child’s life by trekking through a desert without adequate food and water? If anything, the ACLU should investigate why the progressive socialist democrats and their fellow travelers are resisting the type of legal and constitutional border protection that may have prevented this tragedy. Or investigate the attorney’s who coach illegal immigrants how to request asylum and those who knowingly allow our detention facilities to be overrun with illegal aliens surrendering to Border Patrol Agents knowing they will be released in the United States with a notice to appear for a hearing in a few years.]

Though much of the political and media attention has focused in recent weeks on migrant caravans arriving at the Tijuana-San Diego border, large numbers of Central Americans continue to cross the border into Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. The groups sometimes spend days in smugglers’ stash houses or walking through remote areas with little food or water before reaching the border. Read more…

Bottom line…

What can one say about this shameless political exploitation of a dead little girl by the Washington Post?

-- steve

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MORE POLITICIZED NEWS FROM THE WASHINGTON POST

In a disgusting display of partisan politics, the Washington Post deliberately politicized a tragedy totally caused by the victim’s own actions and tried to suggest that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s policies should be inspected. As if that were an adequate answer to the preventable death of a child by a parent who knowingly endangered his own daughter. If indeed it is his own daughter?

A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday.

The child’s death is likely to intensify scrutiny of detention conditions at Border Patrol stations and CBP facilities that are increasingly overwhelmed by large numbers of families seeking asylum in the United States.

[OCS: Instead of lauding the Border Patrol and pointing out the heroic and expensive efforts to save this child’s life, the miscreant reporters and their equally culpable editors and publisher seek to politicize the tragedy and seemingly question the actions of the BCP.]

According to CBP records, the girl and her father were taken into custody about 10 p.m. Dec. 6 south of Lordsburg, N.M., as part of a group of 163 people who approached U.S. agents to turn themselves in.

More than eight hours later, the child began having seizures at 6:25 a.m., CBP records show. Emergency responders, who arrived soon after, measured her body temperature at 105.7 degrees, and according to a statement from CBP, she “reportedly had not eaten or consumed water for several days.”

After a helicopter flight to Providence Children’s Hospital in El Paso, the child went into cardiac arrest and “was revived,” according to the agency. “However, the child did not recover and died at the hospital less than 24 hours after being transported,” CBP said.

The agency did not release the name of the girl or her father, but the father remains in El Paso awaiting a meeting with Guatemalan consular officials, according to CBP. The agency is investigating the incident to ensure appropriate policies were followed, it said.

[OCS: The father should be criminally charged and prosecuted for premeditated child endangerment. He should be imprisoned and then deported. He is not worthy of sympathy for the loss of a child whose death could have been prevented had he not used his child as a key to pick the lock of American sovereignty.]

Food and water are typically provided to migrants in Border Patrol custody, and it wasn’t immediately clear Thursday if the girl received provisions and a medical exam before the onset of seizures.

“Our sincerest condolences go out to the family of the child,” CBP spokesman Andrew Meehan said in a statement to The Washington Post.

“Border Patrol agents took every possible step to save the child’s life under the most trying of circumstances,” Meehan said. “As fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, we empathize with the loss of any child.”

The ACLU blamed “lack of accountability, and a culture of cruelty within CBP” for the girl’s death. “The fact that it took a week for this to come to light shows the need for transparency for CBP. We call for a rigorous investigation into how this tragedy happened and serious reforms to prevent future deaths,” Cynthia Pompa, advocacy manager for the ACLU Border Rights Center, said in a statement.

[OCS: Is anyone surprised that the ACLU (American Communist Lawyers Union) was quick to politicize this tragedy which is clearly the fault of the father who endangered his child’s life by trekking through a desert without adequate food and water? If anything, the ACLU should investigate why the progressive socialist democrats and their fellow travelers are resisting the type of legal and constitutional border protection that may have prevented this tragedy. Or investigate the attorney’s who coach illegal immigrants how to request asylum and those who knowingly allow our detention facilities to be overrun with illegal aliens surrendering to Border Patrol Agents knowing they will be released in the United States with a notice to appear for a hearing in a few years.]

Though much of the political and media attention has focused in recent weeks on migrant caravans arriving at the Tijuana-San Diego border, large numbers of Central Americans continue to cross the border into Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. The groups sometimes spend days in smugglers’ stash houses or walking through remote areas with little food or water before reaching the border. Read more…

Bottom line…

What can one say about this shameless political exploitation of a dead little girl by the Washington Post?